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coN PLANTER.

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BERTIE COLE, OF DAIJESBURG, SOUTH DAKOTA.

CORN'PLANTER.

SFECFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 695,279, dated March 11,1902.

Application filed July 20,1901. Serial No. 69,124. (No modelJ T0 @ZZwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTIE COLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dalesburg', in the county of Clay and State of South Dakota,have invented new and useful Improvements in Corn-Planters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to corn-planters and rotary colters; and itsobject is to provide a planter which will facilitate the planting ofseed and which will enable the opening of hard ground for the receptionof seed without requiring plowing of the land.

With these and other objects as pertain to the nature of the invention'the latter consists, primarily, of a seed-tube having a pair of coltersat its lower end arranged to stand at an angle to each other, theirfront ends approaching and their rearvends diver-ging, so as to formpractically a wedge-shaped cutting edge.

The improvement also further consists of the novel features and thepeculiar combination and construction of parts, which will hereinafterbe more fully set forth and claimed and which are illustrated iu theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective vview showinga portion of a corn-planter embodying1 my improvements. Fig. 2 is a sideview of the mechanism, one of the disks being removed and the adjacentframework being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross-sectionof the colters and seed-tube. Fig. 4 is a horizontal cross-section ofthe seed-tube and shoe. Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of myinvention, parts being broken away. Fig. 6 is a modified form of myinvention.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 designates the rear crossbeam of theplanter-frame, which is enlarged at its outer ends 2 for the receptionof the seed-hoppers 3 3. Leading downwardly from each hopper is avertical delivery-chute 4, the lower end of which is adjacent the-rearend of the furrow-cutting shoe 5, and with which rear end the chute isconnected through the medium of the side strips 7 which 4are securedin'placeV by bolts 3. The shoe 5 is provided with a cutting edge 6. Thelower end of the delivery-chute 4 is enlarged, as in the usualconstruction,

-and has its front side crimped, as at 9, so as to provide means for thereception of one of the bolts 8. The shoe 5 extends forward in ahorizontal pla-ne, and its forward end is curved upward, as shown inFig. 2.

To the free end of the curved portion of the cutting-shoe is mounted apair of inner colterscrapers 10 10, which are bent outward to come incontact with the rotary colters. 11 and 12 each designate a pair of diskcolters,

Vwhich are arranged on either side ofthe chutes`4 and mounted uponforwardly-inclined axles 13 and 14, journaled in the lower ends offrame-hangers 15. The frame-hangers 15 are secured by bolts 16 to theunder side of the ends 2 of the rear cross-beam 1 of the frame. Thehangers are so arranged that the peripheries of the two colters cometogether at one point, so that an edge View of them resembles the letterV, and these contiguous edges of the two colters form practically awedge-shaped cutting ed ge.v

The colter-axles are preferably of the ordinary bolt type, which throughthe medium of nuts 17 are held in position.

It will thus be seen that as the machine moves forward the revolvingcolters cut the ground and the shoe opens a furrow, and as thedropping-tube 4 is located in the widest portion of the space betweenthe colters the grain is dropped into the furrow.

From the lower end of each pair of frame; hangers 15 two rods 1S extendforward and slightly converge upwardly to the front crossbar 19 of theplanter-frame, to which their front ends are secured. Thefront cross-bar19 lies parallel to beam 1, and the plantertongue 2O is secured theretoand to the rear cross-bar l, equidistant of their ends, by bolt 21.

Secured by bolts 23, adjacent to the ends of the front cross-bar 19, arethe forward ends of a pair of rearwardly-converging bars 22, which areunited beyond the rear cross-bar 1 by bolts (not shown) located inbolt-holes 23, thereby forming a substantially triangular corn-planterframe, the rear cross-bar 1 serving as abrace and being secured theretoby bolts 24. 3

Secured to the frame-hangers 15 by bolts'25, adjacent to the peripheryof the colters 10 and 11, are a pair of outer colter-scrapers 2G.

In the modified form of my invention I em- IOO ploy but one coiter 27,which is disposed to one side of the seed-tube 4 in the same manner asin lthe preferred form of my invention. Secured to the opposite side ofthe seed-tube 4, adjacent its lower end, is a cutting-blade 28, which isadapted to act as a divider and form a furrow into which the seed isdropped. The front edge of the cutting-blade 2S approaches the piane ofthe colter 27, and the coiter and cutting-blade stand at an angie toeach other and to the line of draft, so as to secure proper clearancefor the depositing of the seed in the furrow formed by the colter andcutting-blade as the device is drawn over the field.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a pair of converging coiters, of afurrow-cutting shoe located between the colters, having anupwardly-extending cutter, and the inner colter-scrapers secured to theupper end of thev cutter of the shoe.

2. The combination With a pair of converging,r coiters, of aseed-delivery chute crimped at its front edge, a furrow-cutting shoehavingan upwardly-extending cutter, side strips, and means whereby theVfront edge of the chute, the shoe and the strips are secured together.

3. The combination with a pair of converg ing coiters, of aseed-delivery chute, a furrow-cutting shoe having an upwardly-extendingcutter, means whereby the chute and shoe are secured together, and theinner colter- Scrapers secured to the upper end of the cutter of theshoe.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BERTIE COLE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. N. MADEEN, A. J. COLE.

